Corotating light cylinders and Alfv\'en waves
K.N. Gourgouliatos, D. Lynden-Bell
TL;DR
This paper explores relativistic force-free fields with cylindrical symmetry related to pulsar magnetospheres, discussing their potential to generate strong interstellar magnetic fields and their likely instability.
Contribution
It introduces exact solutions for relativistic force-free fields with cylindrical symmetry connected to pulsar magnetospheres and examines their stability and implications for interstellar magnetic fields.
Findings
Exact relativistic force-free cylindrical fields are derived.
Such fields could generate strong interstellar magnetic fields.
These fields are likely unstable in practice.
Abstract
Exact relativistic force free fields with cylindrical symmetry are explored. Such fields are generated in the interstellar gas via their connection to pulsar magnetospheres both inside and outside their light cylinders. The possibility of much enhanced interstellar fields wound on cylinders of Solar system dimensions is discussed but these are most likely unstable.
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